On May 20, 2009, Attorney General Eric Holder and Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced the creation of a new interagency effort, the Health Care Fraud Prevention and Enforcement Action Team (HEAT), to combat Medicare fraud. Holder and Sebelius also announced the expansion of Strike Force team operations to Detroit and Houston. Medicare Fraud Strike Forces, currently in operation in South Florida and Los Angeles, fight Medicare fraud on a targeted local level.

Court papers show the investigation into Duke University employee accused of soliciting an adult to have sex with his adopted 5-year-old child began after a confidential informant claimed to have seen the man molest a young African-American child via online chats on multiple occasions.

We've learned Michael Jackson was not the biological father of any of his children. And Debbie Rowe is not the biological mother of the two kids she bore for Michael. All three children were conceived in vitro -- outside the womb.

Indianapolis police said Tuesday morning that a mildly autistic 12-year-old boy who they and other agencies searched for throughout the night was actually in the custody of Child Protective Services the whole time.

Cincinnati has some wonderful events to celebrate the holidays. We will soon be seeing some beautiful firework displays for the Fourth of July celebration. For many people, the holidays are a time of celebration and happiness. In the world of foster care, holidays may instead present a challenge. This can occur for a variety of reasons. Holidays may have meant something very different when the child lived with their birth family. The child may have either sad or happy memories of those holidays. The holiday may stur emotions which may intensify the child's sense of loss at this time.

This morning in U.S. District Court, Judge Thomas F. Hogan took up the on-going legal battle over the District’s Child and Family Services Agency. At issue was whether or not the agency could be held in contempt. Hogan devoted much of his consternation on the how the District went about picking Dr. Roque Gerald (pictured) to head up CFSA.

Monday, June 29, 2009

A Maryland Transit Administration police officer has been charged with raping a 15-year-old Elkridge girl who asked him for help finding her way home on the light rail, according to charging documents.

The July 1993 suffocation of 3-year-old Louise Osborn at a Bloomington foster home set in motion 15 years of civil court proceedings to determine if any person or agency should be held accountable for her death.

An African-American woman and social worker at the state Department of Children and Families city office has filed a discrimination complaint against the agency after being terminated from a job where she’s “never been written up for any disciplinary action” in 8½ years on the job, she said.

Safford Middle School officials violated the constitutional rights of Savana Redding when they strip-searched her Oct. 8, 2003, while looking for ibuprofen pills, the United States Supreme Court decided June 25.

Note: Don't you just love how it takes the supreme court to show these assholes what anybody else knows with just a little bit of common sense?

Youth at a Sheridan juvenile facility were physically restrained far more often than youth at similar institutions before the facility lost its state contract in March, according to documents from the Wyoming Department of Family Services.

These parents consented to CPS interview of their daughter outside their presence, however El Paso County Department of Human Services balked at the hitch: the parents intended to record the interview.

With regard to recording conversations, Colorado is a "one-party" state -- meaning that only one party need know that a conversation is being recorded, even if that party is also the recorder; nor is that party required to disclose that the conversation is being recorded to any of the other parties.

CPS records every single second of every single encounter they have with parents; it makes forging our own words into the very weapons with which they stab us in our backs so much easier. But when that shoe was put on both feet, CPS didn't much like they way they felt.

in the selfish interest of defending its ravenous and insatiable penchant for destroying families, CPS turned tail and ran out of this interview and into the protective arms of its legal counsel. Wouldn't it be nice if Moms and Dads had a similar option to simply stand up and run back into the loving arms of our kidnapped and hostage children??

Farrah Fawcettt died early Thursday and went straight to Heaven. When she arrived she was met (appropriately for an Angel) by God who said due to the good life she had led she could have 1 wish. After some thought, Farrah advised God that her wish was "for all children on earth to be safe." Mysteriously Michael Jackson was dead one hour later.

Two judges are embroiled in a legal battle that could force one judge to appear before the other in court next week, as part of a case filed by a formerly homeless man seeking custody of his son.

Circuit Judge Michael Gotsch has ordered County Probate Judge Peter Nemeth, who handles juvenile cases, to appear in court Thursday to explain why a 17-year-old boy hasn't been released from a foster home and returned to his father.

The grandparents of children who were in the same foster home where a man has been charged with assaulting a 10-week-old baby say they complained to government officials about their children's injuries as well.

The leader of Dundee City Council today said he agreed with the Scottish Government that a lack of central funding was not responsible for the failures in the city’s child protection services (writes David Clegg).

Note: That's right. It's not the cash it's the incompetence of the workers.

There is nothing that is more surprising or hurtful than the bitter sting of a personal attack. And no attack is more personal than being falsely accused of something that involves your child. Whether it is an accusation of directly harming the child like a physical assault, or mental abuse, or if it is an accusation in an attempt to keep you from seeing your child like drug, or alcohol abuse it is all very personal.

One of the worst things about it is that you realize, in a very personal way, how venerable everyone is to these false accusations. Of course the focal point that makes this such a horrendous offense is that it could cost you time and even a relationship with your child. And it is that hard wired genetic parental sense of protection that gets triggered. It isn't really about you, it is about keeping your child safe. And here you are being faced with leaving them in the protection of someone who has no problem with harming their relationship.

The 2 major problems you typically face with false allegations are:1: The element of surprise. This is normally sprung on you and you have no idea it was coming.2: The difficulty of disproving a negative. There is no good answer to "Have you stopped beating your wife?"On the other hand you do have to tools that work in your favor.

1: The complete lack of a documented history. While you probably have loads of email or texts complaining about clothes, food, or something trivial. Where's the major allegations complaints?2: The motivation driving the allegation. Why resort to false allegations? You must be doing something right.Because it caught you off guard, you were not prepared to deal with it as quickly as you should. Depending on the type of allegation and how it came about, you may find yourself kept from your child, or finding it in court documents that were served on you. Either way it is an unpleasant feeling.

If you find yourself talking to a CPS worker or court worker unexpectedly, you should make sure you ask the question, if they know you are in a high conflict custody battle. This in most instances is all they need to hear. If you don't say that and find yourself in much more dire straits, then share some email or texts with the investigator. Then ask the question, if this is such a horrible crime, why is the other parent concerned with daily tasks in their communication with you? Why not address this horrible accusation directly?

While you cannot directly disprove a negative, you can point the light and ask why now? Above all, don't panic. This normally means you were doing well and they fear losing control. Keep your cool and ask why now? Why this? Why not before? These cases are painful but they can be won if you ask the right questions.

Ed Brooks knows firsthand how painful a High Conflict Child Custody battle can be. Ed has created a site where parents can get advice on how to handle all aspects of a high conflict Child Custody battle. If you want to learn more about handling False Allegations issues you can find it here.

Michael Jackson leaves behind three children, all of whom bear his name. Their future is said to be set out in his will but family members including Jackson’s mother, Katherine, have already offered to take care of the orphans following their father’s death.

After McCluney, the troubled teenager, who was of low intelligence and 'poor moral development', was today convicted of her murder, it can now be revealed that social workers ignored a catalogue of evidence that Demi-Leigh was at risk.

If you have had a bad experience with a judge in New York State, whether a family court judge or not, you can file a complaint against him or her with the New York State Commission on Judicial Conduct. The law requires that your com- plaint be in writing and you must sign it. However, you do not have to have it notarized, nor do you have to be sworn.

This is a step in the right direction because this new settlement puts a new emphasis on the most important change Baltimore needs to make: Doing more to keep children out of foster care in the first place.

Most parents who lose their children to foster care are nothing like those whose cases, rightly, make headlines. And in typical cases, extensive research shows that children left in their own homes do better even than comparably-maltreated children placed in foster care. That does not mean no child ever should be taken from her or his parents. Rather, it means that foster care is an extremely toxic intervention that should be used sparingly and in small doses.

The Saskatchewan Party government has dropped another of its hand-picked civil servants in social services, just four months after Social Services Minister Donna Harpauer expressed confidence in and promoted Tim Korol.

It wasn't that long ago when the Florida Department of Children & Families was seen as a hapless bureaucracy. Whether it was their seeking to incarcerate an 8 year-old to ensure he received proper care, or simply losing youngsters supposedly under its care, it didn't take much for DCF to make a mockery of its role in child welfare.

Wednesday, June 24, 2009

In response to the administration's recent heralding of of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, parents' groups and family rights advocates across the nation overwhelmed the phone lines of U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice. They shut down phone lines and crashed the voice mail system, announced Michael Ramey, Director of Communications & Research for parentalrights.org.

the purpose of this blog is too show people what goes on in the uk,and the barbaric ways of the social services...i just want too make others realise what is going on and get the message across...DNT BECOME ANOTHER CHILDLESS VICTIM OF THIS COUNTRIES ADOPTION SYSTEM AND SUFFER AS MY FAMILY ARE!

Cook County Public Guardian Robert F. Harris filed suit Tuesday against the governor and the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services, asking a judge to halt a budget plan to slash psychological services for roughly 100 wards who were turned over to the state after they were sexually and otherwise physically abused.

In a move that has parents and children’s rights advocates cheering, Texas Gov. Rick Perry on Friday vetoed Senate Bill 1440, a contentious measure designed to make it easier for the state Department of Family and Protective Services (DFPS) to remove children forcibly from their homes for interrogation and examination during investigations of alleged child abuse or neglect.

When the Oswego County Legislature’s Health and Human Services Committee meets today, the last item on the agenda is a discussion of the Cornell Process Review Report and Child Protective Services Improvement Plan.

October 4, 2004. I will remember that day for the rest of my life. For me, September 11, 2001 fades in comparison because October 4, 2004 was the day Child Protective Services (CPS) of Montgomery County, New York took my daughter away from me based on anonymous and false allegations. I finally got her back, but she would never have been taken in the first place if I had known more about how CPS and Family Court operated, and if I had known my rights under the law.

This blogger really set off a nerve with the cps victims in the newsgroup. It turned out to be a really lively exchange. Make sure you read all the comments. That was one hell of what Torina or M4$ would call a troll attack.

We were very close and had a good life until the day he went to school at 5 years old with a bruise. I noticed it before he went to school and asked him how he got it. He told me that he got it outside playing.

Later that day the school called and told me that they called DHS and they came and picked up my son for that very same bruise.

The state and lawyers for Baltimore City children in foster care have reached a new agreement in their 25-year court battle over the care the children receive.

Lawyers for foster children filed suit in 1984 seeking better treatment for the children. In 1988, the two sides reached a consent decree, but that did not end the case. For the past 21 years, the state and the children’s advocates have argued over the extent of Maryland’s compliance with the decree, culminating in the advocates’ 2007 motion asking a judge to find the state in contempt and enforce compliance.

Children all over the USA are being taken from loving families on falsified documents. The CPS Secretary of Kansas stated that the Sedgwick County DA "bullied" Social Workers into falsifying affidavits to remove children. Please view this website for more information and help BE A Voice for all children.http://kansascpspostaudit.blogspot.com/Contact Leo Hafner and let him know the USA is watching this Audit:Deputy Post AuditorLeo Hafnerleo.hafner@lpa.ks.gov785-296-3792

Albany Family Court Judge, W. Dennis Duggan, was named 2007 Family Court Judge of the Year by his colleagues from the New York State Family Court Judges Association. However, as of the date of this article, he has been voted New York State's worst judge for 2009 on Courthouse Forum. The surveys and voting on Courthouse Forum are not necessarily scientific.

Monday, June 22, 2009

I agree with your editorial on the foster care system of June 11, except I feel it did not cover the basic needs that should apply to foster parents. I feel that anyone who wants to “adopt” a child should, at the very first, have the means to support that child. To be given the care of a child who is not one’s own and to be paid to do it is asking for trouble.

A Coleman man received the maximum sentence of 20 years in prison Thursday for recklessly causing serious bodily injury that led to the death of a 14-month-old foster child in his care three years ago.

When Kevin Libin was writing this story at the National Post on CAS, their child protection agency, he certainly didn't expect readers to respond with a flood of stories of their own experiences, each more chilling than the next.

In the city of Kansas City, MIssouri, an unholy alliance exists between one reading teacher at Troost Elementary by the name of Williams, and the Missouri Department of Social Services, one Jason Campbell to be exact. Mr. Campbell, and Ms. Williams have joined together, to remove children from loving homes, and have them placed on medication. These children are removed from their homes, they are placed with specific case-workers. These children are placed in specific homes, where they are “broken down”, This basically amounts to brainwashing, and beatings. They are isolated from their siblings, not allowed to see their families, or even talk to their families. The school district and the state has turned a deaf ear on this issue.

Almost everyone knows that New York State maintains a sex offender registry, but few people know that New York State, in deed all states, also maintains a child abuse and maltreatment registry, known as the State Central Register. While the sex offender registry serves a useful purpose in that it makes the public aware of convicted sex offenders, the nature of their crimes, and where they are currently living; the child abuse and maltreatment registry is seriously flawed and is injurious to thousands of people who have never been convicted of a crime. That’s because you do not have to be convicted of a crime to have your name placed on the child abuse and maltreatment registry.

New York State Office of Children and Family Services Commissioner Gladys Carrión, Esq., today allocated nearly $1.7 million in seed funding to ten local counties and the St. Regis Mohawk Tribe to hire additional child protective services caseworkers to investigate calls to the state’s Child Abuse Hotline.

Alberta's child protection system has come under heavy criticism after it was revealed Thursday that the 16-year-old charged with second-degree murder in the weekend stabbing of Curtis Osterlund in Edmonton was a ward of the province.

Felicia Wale burst out in tears when the child protection worker told her that the government was not going to give back her two daughters. Two weeks after her 21-month-old son, Jor-el Macnamara, died while in government care, she could not understand why her worker believes her children were better off under government supervision.

I have created a new blog, the blog of blogs so to speak which I have named Protected To Death.

This blog is a collection of RSS feeds from any and all family rights blogs I come across. And I come across them all the time. It is an attempt to bring all family rights bloggers together under one roof. It will never be the same blog twice as it will only show the most recent posts to these other blogs.

If you would like your blog to be included, let me know. I will deck it out over time.

A Snohomish County Superior Court Judge has made a nearly unheard of ruling in the case of Poca, a 4-year-old child who was taken from her foster parents, the only stable home she’d ever known, a month-and-a-half ago.

A new report on the Oswego County Department of Social Services says the agency runs well but needs a larger staff to handle a surge of child welfare cases that began with the death of Erin Maxwell.----Erin Maxwell's 'Legacy'

An investigation conducted by Cornell University finds significant internal problems within the Child Protective Services Division at the Oswego County Department of Social Services. The report was requested by Social Services Commissioner Fran Lanigan following the death of Erin Maxwell last August. Following the alleged murder of 11 year old Erin Maxwell, many in the community refuse to accept the idea that caseworkers investigated three complaints about the Maxwell home and did not remove the child from a home full of garbage, animals and feces.

The state Supreme Court on Friday overturned rulings by the Family Court that had allowed a divorced mother and her two children to remain in Rhode Island for almost seven years despite an order from a North Carolina judge that they return to that state where the children's father lived.----R.I. should have kept out of N.C. custody dispute, justices say

GREEN ISLAND By the time Albany County Family Court Judge Gerard Maney allegedly tried to avoid a road sobriety checkpoint on the Green Island Bridge Thursday night, it was no secret police were out looking for drunk drivers.

Gov. Rick Perry, juggling his re-election effort with a lot of tough calls on bills lawmakers sent him in recent weeks, may have an out on a bill about child abuse that's kicked off a firestorm among social conservatives and parents' rights groups -- as well as a liberal agitator or two.

Friday, June 19, 2009

With the most recent photos that developed showing Kate Gosselin hitting her daughter Leah, and refusing to give Mady water, it turns out that The District Attorney may conduct an investigation against Kate Gosselin for Child Abuse, Child Neglect, and possibly Assault on a minor child under the age of 12.

My name is Jennifer, I am writing in response to your blog. I have a story about CPS that you should hear, see when I was born I had Fetal Alcohol Syndrome, my mother was an alcoholic. Cps spent almost two years pulling my brother and me from her care from what I am told. (A lot about our case is sealed for unknown reasons)

my brother whom is older and I went through the foster care system from the age of 2 to the age of 10 I was put in home after home, they tried to separate us and I kept standing my ground he was the only family I had left the only person I trusted, well after a long string of homes we were sent to a home in Oregon of the people who adopted us, My father is a great man and I love and respect him with all that I am. Our adoptive mother was strict and bordered abuse but all in all I turned out OK my brother was given back up to the state when he was 14. after I became an adult I left home and started my own family and within two years I had a son and a daughter, their father was abusive and I turned to those I had been raised to trust CPS ( in Florida) and they took my kids saying I was an alcoholic and my record now mirrors my real mothers. To date I have lost four children to the state one they gave back to her father (here in Texas) who sexually abused her and never charged him, they let him go. I am still fighting just to see her; I refuse to allow them to get me down so I am writing a book called"Guilty by blood"

I had to give my youngest son up for adoption so I wouldn't lose him to the state. when they accused me of being a drug addict and alcoholic I had proof that I didn't do drugs and I am allergic to alcohol further more I am a security officer and have been one for over 6 years they told me that job was too dangerous to be a single mother.

I am attaching a poem I wrote called damaged goods its how us foster kids feel waiting to be adopted and I appreciated your ear and I pray somehow this story helps someone! God bless Jennifer

We have all read the poem “ A child learns what he lives”

Well here is a story for your mind.

Imagine a large tall building that reaches well into the sky, it spans the size of

several city blocks, It's stone facade creating shadows on all that

sits in it's path. Windows that are small covered in bars, dark shades

pulled tight. The title on the Building up so high no one can see.

You get a eerie feeling looking at it's menacing structure, upon entering it's

jail like doors you come upon a foyer large and rather plain. The receptionist

looks as if she hasn't seen the sun in 25 years, her face pelted

with frown lines, so bad that you aren't sure she has ever smiled.

Walking further down a narrow hall you see a sign plain and brown on the wall

that simply states “showroom --->”. you come upon a large set of double

doors dark and guarded by two men who check your identification and

open the doors, a haunting groan is heard as the doors open.

You enter a large room with shelves in neat rows each labeled

the first one you see says “ babies ages newborn to 12 months , race white or other”

your heart sinks as you feel a sick knotting feeling in the pit of your stomach.

You walk closer and begin to see exactly what the sign described each child

looks healthy and beautiful. But their eyes seem to show their

pain. As you round the first corner you see another shelf with a sign

labeled “ Clearance “ and you see children that are half grown

you see their questioning face knowing they are trying their best to look

the best and be the best deal for your money.

Now that is what the foster care system is like to the children who live in it....

A state audit released this week says the Department of Children’s Services has improved some past problems but still has room for improvement when it comes to basic administrative practices and the care of older children.

A 32 YEAR OLD MAN CHARGED IN CONNECTION WITH A GRUESOME INCIDENT OF CHILD ABUSE MADE HIS FIRST COURT APPEARANCE THURSDAY. ----SPOKESWOMAN FOR THE DEPARTMENT JANIS JEAN SAYS BASI WAS THE COMMON LAW PARTNER OF THE BABY'S FOSTER MOTHER.

Ana Rita Leonardo gave birth to Martim at the age of 13 and, as she did not have the conditions to care for him, she handed him over to an institution. Recently, Cascais Family Court decided he should be adopted with urgency and so she has since staged a number of protests, the last being a hunger strike outside the Family Court.

A Prince William County Social Services employee was fired and two others were disciplined this week in the aftermath of the Alexis “Lexie” Glover investigation, according to department director Jack Ledden.

A 14-year-old McDonald, Tenn., boy charged with raping and killing a 3-year-old girl sat huddled beside his attorney Thursday, his eyes fixed on the table in front of him, while a forensic pathologist showed graphic autopsy photos of the multiple injuries that led to the toddler's death.

State employees stole from foster children's savings accounts, skipped calls and e-mails to teens transitioning out of foster care and submitted mileage reports for trips to and from work, an audit released this week found.

It had been a big story, a tragic story, and it dominated local newspapers. A little boy, just shy of 3 years old, had disappeared from a Long Island sidewalk — and despite the efforts of law enforcement agencies and hundreds of volunteer searchers, he was never found.

Attended the Rockwall Republican Men’s Club breakfast June 14 where State Rep. Jodie Laubenberg (R-Rockwall) called on about 80 members to contact Governor Rick Perry’s office right away to ask him to veto Senate Bill 1440, which will clear the way for CPS to arbitrarily enter homes and take children away from parents without a court order.

Just how dangerous are the amphetamine stimulant drugs prescribed for children with so-called ADHD? According to scientific research funded by the FDA and the National Institute of Mental Health, drugs such as Ritalin increase the risk of sudden death by five hundred percent among children and teens.

As we have been reporting, a 5-year-old girl was raped and a 6-year-old boy, her brother, allegedly sexually abused by a convicted felon. The children are poor. They have no one looking out for them. And the Oklahoma governor, attorney general, presiding judge and the DA all threw these kids away.

It is hard to explain the extreme poverty in which I grew up while in foster care. There was little food and my clothes were not much more than rags. I remember seeing a picture of a toothbrush in a discarded magazine and thinking that somebody must have to be very rich to afford one.

If you happen to be a regular reader of this column, you may recall that about a month ago I highlighted the correlation between domestic violence, child abuse and animal abuse. One week later, the Cumberland County Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals' Cruelty Department received a call from the state police about the alleged stabbing death of a dog, two days prior, by a child in foster care.

Any chance to spend time in a safe, loving environment would greatly help Jeff recover from everything he has endured.

The 14-year-old has moved from one foster home or orphanage to another more than 20 times in his young life. He also has witnessed severe domestic abuse against others in his home and been the victim of severe emotional abuse. Because of these experiences, he has great difficulty making friends and feeling comfortable around adults.

Dear Mr Straw RE: Data Protection Act and the release of files by Social Services Last week, the Children Schools and Families Select Committee published its report on its Inquiry into Looked After Children. In our submission of supplementary evidence to the Committee following our oral evidence on 30 June 2008 we commented that: “A particular feature of the imbalance within proceedings between parent and local authority is the advantage gained by the latter in failing to release documents. Recurring themes in our cases either involve obstructions to Data Protection Act requests for social services files or local authority reports and other documents not being delivered on time to read.”

Parents are entitled to request from social services departments all information on them under section 7(1) of the Data Protection Act 1998. Local authorities are obliged to send the requested files within 40 working days but in our work advising and supporting parents in public law proceedings we find that this limit is often not adhered to and in some cases files do not get released at all before hearings. Evidence is gathered from a variety of sources before children are taken from their parents in the family courts. Tracking down and obtaining these documents can be very difficult because they are held by various bodies and must be applied for in different ways. We feel that parents should be entitled to their files within the statutory time limit and not just social services files but all files; from health visitors, GPs, different hospitals, ambulance trusts, psychologists, paediatricians, to name but a few. We therefore call on you as Justice Secretary to force, in particular, social services and individual courts to comply with the Data Protection Act as we have found in our work that children are being taken into care unnecessarily as a consequence of these files being withheld. Yours sincerely Alison Stevens Chair On behalf of PAIN Parents Against INjustice PAIN 10 Greensward, East Goscote, Leicester LE7 3QW Tel: 0116 260 2855 Mobile PAIN Helpline: 07906 44 1056 Website www.parentsagainstinjustice.org.uk Email: enquiries@parentsagainsinjustice.org.uk

A District Judge Tom Bartheld may be forced to step down from his position as an officer of the court, after he sentences a man who admitted to raping and sodomizing a four year old girl over several months to only one year in jail.

Three children who heard the screams and yells from the basement where Katlin Cousineau was being tortured with a blow torch were once under the care of the Children's Aid Society, a jury heard yesterday.

Police arrested a 31-year-old woman who was the legal guardian of her best friend’s children when one child, a 22-month-old girl, died last year. Sarah Mascorro Sifuentes is in Bexar County Jail in lieu of $100,000 on a charge of injury to a child by omission in connection with the death of Cyleste Gonzales on Oct. 26, 2008.

Monday, June 15, 2009

For at least 18 years, Los Angeles County has repeatedly received urgent and sometimes gruesome reminders that its agencies don't share vital information about potentially abused or neglected children, according to a Times investigation.

Siblings are so much fun—especially when they get along. But even if they do "play nice," there's bound to be the occasional spat here and there. Sometimes those fights can get physical with a slap, a pinch ... some wrestling around on the ground. How do you discipline your children when they fight?

When her son and daughter-in-law were jailed last year on methamphetamine charges -- leaving their two children behind -- Patricia Schroer and her husband, Richard, both state-certified foster parents, tried to open their Valley Station home to the boys.

The lengthy detention of a mentally ill 11-year-old boy in Santa Clara County's juvenile hall has raised alarm among national juvenile justice experts. But while the jailing, recently reported by the Mercury News, is rare, it reveals a far more common problem: Counties throughout California struggle each day to find appropriate places for juvenile offenders with severe psychiatric problems.

Sunday, June 14, 2009

The KING 5' Investigators expose more problems in the case of "Poca," the 4-year-old child abruptly taken from her foster parents. We look at the attorney assigned to advocate for Poca in court. KING 5's Susannah Frame looks into whether he's done what's really best for her.

Denise Manning feared for her 5-month-old grandson's safety, and said so in a letter to child welfare officials. Lethargic and anemic, the baby had been hospitalized with an unexplained bruise under his chin.

UK Social Services child abuse of Joseph De Ridder. Please watch all the evidence we have. CPS / Social Services removed Joseph De Ridder from his loving home.We need your help and ideas! Pass these videos to EVERYONE you know!We need people from USA & UK. Please tell us what can be done.To contact Roger the fatherhttp://www.youtube.com/user/rogercaro...

This is a clear case of an abuse of power by authorities. Suzanne McHenry, a British citizen and mother of 3 children, has been falsely accused of burning her 4-year-old daughter with cigarettes, even though evidence indicates that the marks on the child's skin were the result of a Staphylococcus infection.

DHS removed the children from their home without a warrant and without even offering an explanation for their actions. In addition, the parents were not given any paperwork from the DHS, nor told where their children were taken to.

Suzanne McHenry, who has been described as a caring mother by those who know her, is currently being wrongly held against her will at the Crittenden County Jail on a $100,000 bond, which the family can not afford to pay. Here is the disturbing story from Action News 5 in Memphis, TN:

MARION, Arkansas (WMC-TV) - A Mid-South mother is charged with child abuse after investigators say she burned her 4-year-old daughter with lit cigarettes.

Prosecutor Lindsey Fairley says police received a tip claiming Suzanna McHenry had caused injuries to her young daughter.

"Officers got a call from the state police children's hotline about injuries to a 4-year-old. They investigated and found the child had numerous burn marks all over her body," said Fairley.

Marion police detective Mark McDougal says the girl told people at school that her mother had burned her.

A doctor who examined the child said the burns appeared to be caused by cigarettes.

But McHenry's friends and neighbors say she's innocent.

Her husband, Calvin McHenry, says his daughter had a staph infection that looked like burns.

"I just can't believe this has happened," he said.

The couple met online and have three children together. Suzanna McHenry, a British citizen, moved from England to Crittenden County.

"She's in the Crittenden County Jail on a $100,000 bond. I have no way to get that," said Calvin McHenry. "I'm trying to get legal representation. No lawyers want to talk to me. I've got no money. I don't have any kids here, no nothing."

Suzanne McHenry remains behind bars and is forbidden to contact her children.

CHILD ABUSE AND NEGLECT MANUAL.On page 106 it states that "Impetigo: A bacterial skin infection, usually caused by Strep or Staph, that causes circular crusted lesions with or without blister formation. Can be confused with cigarette burns.http://www.cdphe.state.co.us/ps/cctf/...

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